Foods that people like but you can't stand

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Can I come in here to bitch about how I actually don't care for salmon? Like I said in the favorite fish thread, I can't put my finger on why, precisely, but it just feels off somehow. It's something about how heavy it is compared to other fish in combination with its vaguely sticky yet granular mouth-feel. Smoking it solves this problem, I'm not sure how exactly.

I agree with you about olives as just something to eat on their own. I don't get how people do that. I like them as ingredients in some things.

Sea urchin's also pretty gross, but I'm not sure if that counts as exotic or not.

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Sweet potatoes. Ugh.

This too. Actually a very similar problem to sea urchin: It's just way sweeter than something of its general type of food has any right to be.

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Avocado on its own, I do like it on a sandwich, in a salad, and as a part of guacamole though.

Do people even really eat avocado outside those contexts anyway?

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Well, on second thought, you could add certain types of sushi to that list, but I've never known anybody to just eat avocado straight-up. Interesting.